[Fixed]-Infinite recursion while extending the admin's app change_form template

You are in admin/change_form.html and you extend admin/change_form.html. You cannot extend the same template which you are in.

You probably expected that if you override template from admin application, you can extend the one you override. But this is not how it works. When you override a template you cannot access it.

Solution to your problem is to copy original template and change things you don’t like.

Also, you can point your AdminOptions class to another template using the change_form_template property.

Something like:

class MyOptions(AdminOptions):
    change_form_template = 'myapp/my_change_form.html'

And myapp/my_change_form.html:

{% extends "admin/change_form.html" %}

I had the same problem. Solved by placing the overridden template under myapp/templates/admin/myapp instead of myapp/templates/admin.

The best way to do this that I have found is to use '..' to go up a couple of directories, then go back down into directories that should only be found in the Django code base.

As the Django templates are in something like "django/contrib/admin/templates/admin", I found that this worked me:

{% extends "../../admin/templates/admin/change_form.html" %}

If that still causes a clash with some other structure you have, you could go further:

{% extends "../../../contrib/admin/templates/admin/change_form.html" %}

or even:

{% extends "../../../../django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/change_form.html" %}

Although it is a little hacky, at least by doing the above you don’t have to use some other technique that involves copying the django source or setting up a symlink.

With Django core it’s impossible. But it is not impossible.

Copy and paste “the original template and change things you don’t like” it’s very ugly.

Don’t make in the templates, whatever you don’t make in python

This solution is to any template:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-smart-extends